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Is The Human Body Ready For A Real Mars Mission?

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🔴 [Interview+] No YT ads. Bonus Part. FREE for everyone https://www.patreon.com/universetoday/posts/174171968 City on Mars Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8sZtg-Kdc Clearly, a journey to Mars and back is the next huge leap for human space flight. We know we need new rockets, new spaceships, new technology, etc. But are the human bodies ready for that? Can humans pull it off? Finding out in this interview. Are We Ready for Mars? https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/54095/are-we-ready-mars 🟣 Guest: Mark Shelhamer, ScD https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/ https://www.jhuhsl.space/ 00:00 Intro 01:52 SciFi vs reality for space travel 08:18 Dangers of going to Mars 13:02 Mitigation strategies 24:33 Beyond the magnetosphere 43:53 Current obsessions 52:20 Final thoughts 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://www.universetoday.com/podcast Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.